December 4th

EVENTS

1110 – Syrian harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
1154 – Adrian IV elected Pope. The only Englishman to become pontiff, Nicholas Breakspear was a member of the family which until recent years brewed beer in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
1197 – Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah
1259 – Treaty of Paris: English King Henry III & French King Louis IX
1489 – Battle of Baza – Spanish army captures Baza from Moors
1534 – Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
1563 – Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
1619 – 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many as the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.
1644 – First European peace congress opens in Munster
1655 – Middelburg Neth forbids building of synagogue
1665 – Jean Racine’s “Alexandre le Grand” premieres in Paris
1674 – Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago
1676 – Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
1680 – Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th
1682 – First General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
1688 – General John Churchill (later 1st Duke of Marlborough) changes allegiance from James II to William of Orange
1691 – Emperor Leopold I takes control of Transsylvania
1691 – Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II viceroy of S Netherlands
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby
1783 – Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce’s Tavern, NYC
1791 – Britain’s Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, first published
1798 – Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt
1812 – Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa, patents a horse-drawn mower
5th US President James Monroe

1816 – James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
1829 – Britain outlaws “suttee” in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre)
1832 – French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
1833 – American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia
1836 – Whig party holds its first national convention, Harrisburg, Pa
1843 – Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass
1843 – Robert Schumann’s “Das Paradies und die Peri” premieres in Leipzig
1844 – James Knox Polk elected 11th US President
1851 – Pres Louis Napoleon Boaparte’s forces crush an attempted coup d’etat in France
1863 – Storm flood ravages Netherlands coastal provinces
1864 – Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) GA
1864 – Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
11th US President James Knox Polk

1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
1872 – The ship the Mary Celeste discovered mysteriously abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean
1875 – William Marcy “Boss” Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
1889 – Stanley’s expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
1899 – 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
1899 – Webb Hayes, son of US President Rutherford Hayes, receives medal of honor
1901 – Anne Russell’s ‘Girl and the judge’ premieres in NYC
1905 – British government of Balfour resigns
1906 – Alpha Phi Alpha, first Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms
1908 – Haiti’s president General Alexis Nord flees from military coup
Politician Boss Tweed

1908 – The world’s ten leading maritime nations attend a Naval Conference in London; they agree on rules for blockade, convoys, and seizure of contraband
1909 – 1st CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Parkdale, 26-6
1914 – Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
1915 – F F Fletcher is first US admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor
1915 – Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County, Ga
1915 – Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes in San Francisco
1915 – Henry Ford’s peace ship, Oscar II, sails for Europe ‘to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas’
1918 – US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st President to travel outside US while in office
1920 – 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
28th US President Woodrow Wilson

1920 – 8th CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 16-3
1921 – The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
1922 – Lucille Atcherson, becomes first woman legation sect-US foreign service
1923 – Cecil B. DeMille’s first version of “Ten Commandments” premieres
1923 – WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
1926 – 14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats U of Toronto, 10-7
1927 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’s 2nd Symphony premieres in Moscow
1927 – Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
1927 – Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP
1928 – Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn’s musical “Whoopee” premieres in NYC
1930 – Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
1931 – “Frankenstein” opens at Mayfair
1933 – FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1933 – Jack Kirkland’s “Tobacco Road” premieres in NYC
1935 – 1,200 at St Joseph’s College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class
1941 – Nazi ordinance places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts
1942 – First US citizenship granted to an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
1942 – FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
1942 – US bombers struck Italian mainland for first time in WW II
1942 – Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization.
1943 – -Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill & Turkish pres Inonu
1943 – Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes
1943 – Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar
1944 – Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
1945 – 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)
1945 – Senate approves US participation in United Nations
1947 – USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union
1948 – “Magdalena” closes at Ziegfeld Theater, NYC, after 48 performances
1948 – SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River, China, sinks killing 2,750 die
1948 – 13th Iron Bowl (first since 1907): Alabama beats Auburn 55-0 in Birmingham
1949 – Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
1949 – Duncan Stewart, 2nd British Governor of Sarawak is fatally stabbed in the streets of Sibu by Malay student Rosli Dhoby with help from Morshidi Sidek with the goal of helping neighbouring Indonesia to take over British Sarawak
Composer Aaron Copland

1951 – Aaron Copland’s/Robbins’ “Pied Piper” premieres in NYC
1951 – Superheated gasses roll down Mount Catarman, Philippines, killing 500 people
1951 – Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government.
1952 – Killer fogs begin in London, England; “Smog” becomes a word
1952 – Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO
1954 – “Hit the Trail” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1954 – “On Your Toes” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 64 performances
1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA
1955 – Mgr Alfrink installed as Archbishop of Utrecht
1956 – 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (QB)
1957 – First edition of “Chase’s Annual Events” published
1957 – 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John’s, England)
1958 – Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community
1958 – Finnish government of Fagerholm resigns
Boxer and Undisputed Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson

1961 – Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1961 – Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse’s Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
1961 – Smallest NY Knick, 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
1961 – Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
1961 – WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 – The female contraceptive ‘pill’ becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain
1961 – 1962 NFL Draft: Ernie Davis from University of Syracuse first pick by Washington Redskins
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 – Aldo Moro forms Italian government (1963-1968)
1963 – Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council
1964 – Baseball approves a free-agent draft
1964 – Beatles release “Beatles For Sale” album
1964 – Commissioner’s office given full powers in baseball disputes
Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro

1964 – Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, v Pakistan MCG, 11, 0-49, 0-31
1965 – “Roar of the Greasepaint” closes at Shubert NYC after 232 perfs
1965 – 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die
1965 – 2nd NY Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers’ owner)
1965 – Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched
1965 – SF Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
1966 – KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf Invitational
1968 – Following a civil rights march in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, there is a violent clash between Loyalists and those who are taking part in the march
1970 – Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
1971 – The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
1971 – The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
1971 – McGurk’s Bar bombing: the UVF explode a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing fifteen Catholic civilians and wounding seventeen others; this was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during ‘the Troubles’
1973 – Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
1974 – Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Muslim pilgrims
Writer Jean-Paul Sartre

1974 – Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in prison
1975 – 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead
1977 – Hollis Stacy/Jerry Pate wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship
1977 – Jean-Bedel Bokassa crowns himself ruler of Central African Empire
1977 – NFL’s 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats KC 27-7
1977 – Neil Simon’s “Chapter Two” premieres in NYC
1977 – 66th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Sydney (3-1)
1978 – Dianne Feinstein is named as San Francisco’s 1st female & Jewish mayor
1978 – Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten freed
1978 – Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
1979 – Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith
1980 – 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up
1980 – Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
Playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon

1981 – “Falcon Crest” premieres on CBS-TV
1981 – Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
1981 – According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa
1982 – 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB)
1982 – China adopts its constitution
1982 – Police & racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp
1983 – “Amen Corner” closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 83 performances
1983 – “Baby” opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 241 performances
1983 – David Shire & R Maltby Jr’s musical “Baby” premieres in NYC
1983 – NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0
1983 – US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
1984 – Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan

1984 – 6th ACE Cable Awards: David Bowie: Serious Moonlight by Anthony Eaton and HBO
1985 – “Les Miserables” opens at Palace Theatre, London
1985 – French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski
1985 – President Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser
1986 – NASA launches Fltsatcom-7
1986 – Neil Simon’s “Broadway Bound” premieres in NYC
1987 – Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
1988 – Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
1988 – Amy Benz/John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1988 – Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers
1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1989 – NBC’s premiere of “Howard Beach: Making A Case for Murder”, based on December 1986 murders of black youths by white youths in New York City
MLB First Baseman Eddie Murray

1990 – Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
1990 – Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
1990 – An Iraqi official reports that Iraq will withdraw if it can retain control of the Rumailah field and keep Bubiyan and Werbah islands; also says that demands that the Palestinian issue be treated separately would not be surmountable
1991 – Judds final concert (Nashville)
1991 – Muslim Shi’ites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
1991 – Pan American World Airways ceased operations
1991 – Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
1992 – Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
1993 – Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec)
1993 – Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
US President George H. W. Bush

1993 – A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
1993 – 2nd SEC Championship Game: #9 Florida beats #16 Alabama, 28-13
1994 – “Angels in America-Perestroika” closes at W Kerr NYC after 216 perfs
1994 – “Angels in America-Millennium Approach” closes at Kerr after 367 perfs
1994 – 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
1994 – Marta Figueras-Dottie/Brad Bryant wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1995 – Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test
1996 – 7th Billboard Music Awards: Alanis Morissette win
1996 – NASA’s 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
1996 – Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest ponts scored since inception of 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57
1997 – “Diary of Anne Frank” opens at Music Box Theater NYC
1997 – NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for 1 year for attacking his coach
1997 – Nizar Hamdoon warns that Iraq will not allow oil to flow during a third six-month phase of the UN’s oil-for-food sale until the UN approves an aid distribution plan
Singer-Songwriter Alanis Morissette

1998 – The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
1999 – 8th SEC Championship Game: #7 Alabama beats #5 Florida, 34-7
2004 – 13th SEC Championship Game: #3 Auburn beats #15 Tennessee, 38-28
2005 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
2005 – 94th Davis Cup: Croatia beats Slovak Republic in Bratislava (3-2)
2005 – U.S. debut of the first part of two-part TV biopic miniseries “Pope John Paul II” on CBS
2006 – An adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo.
2010 – 19th SEC Championship Game: #2 Auburn beats #18 South Carolina, 56-17
2010 – 6th ACC Championship Game: #12 Virginia Tech beats #20 Florida State, 44-33
264th Pope John Paul II

2010 – 15th Big 12 Championship Game: #10 Oklahoma beats #13 Nebraska, 23-20
2011 – 100th Davis Cup: Spain beats Argentina in Seville (3-1)
2012 – 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria
2012 – Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines killing at least 81 people
2013 – Xavier Bettel becomes Luxenberg’s first openly gay Prime Minister
2014 – The United Nations warns that the world is on course for the warmest year since records began
2014 – Ukraine and Pro-Russian rebels agree to cease fire in the eastern war zone, beginning December 9
2014 – US authorities promise a “fair” investigation into the death of Eric Garner, a black man, after a white police officer held him in a choke-hold faces no charges

BIRTHDAYS

1555 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)
1580 – Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626)
1584 – John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony
1595 – Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674)
1646 – Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730)
1660 – Andre Campra, composer
1667 – Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer
1670 – John Aislabie, English politician (d. 1742)
1708 – Marianus Konigsperger, composer
1711 – Barbara of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1758)
1713 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786)
1720 – Jean-Jacques Robson, composer
1777 – Juliette Récamier, French socialite (d. 1849)
1786 – John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament [or 12/14]
1791 – Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer
1795 – Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
1798 – Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (d. 1881)
1800 – Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen)
Historian and Essayist Thomas Carlyle (1795)

1803 – Augustus Zerega diZerega, Martinique, ship owner (Red Z Lane)
1808 – Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horatius)
1812 – Elias Smith Dennis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1894)
1818 – William Wing “Old Blizzards” Loring, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army)
1822 – Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
1825 – Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer
1835 – Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh)
1838 – Melesio Morales, composer
1840 – Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], Fort Robinson Nebraska, Oglala Sioux chief (Battle of the Little Bighorn)
1844 – Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914)
1852 – Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)
1858 – Billy Gunn, cricketer (Notts & England batsman in 11 Tests 1886-99)

Native American War Leader Crazy Horse (1840)

1861 – Lillian Russell, [Helen Leonard], US, singer/actress (Great Mogul)
1865 – Edith Louisa Cavell, England, nurse (WW I)
1866 – Vassily V Kandinsky, Russ/Ger/Fr abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration)
1868 – Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter
1868 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (d. 1953)
1874 – Jean H L Bossard, actor/impresario (Merchant of Venice)
1875 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austria, poet (Duino Elegies)
1875 – Joe Corbett, American baseball player (d. 1945)
1876 – Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria, poet (Iron Poems)
1879 – Herbert Hamilton Harty, composer
1881 – Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot)
1883 – Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author (d. 1969)
1888 – Aleksandar I Karadordjevic, king of Yugoslavia (1921-34)
1889 – Buck Jones, [Charles F Gebhart], US actor (War Horse)
1889 – Isabel Randolph, IL, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Our Miss Brooks)

Spanish Dictator and General Francisco Franco (1892)

1892 – Francisco Franco [ y Bahamonde], Ferrol Galicia, Spanish General and Dictator (1936-75), (d. 1975)
1895 – Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)
1895 – Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990)
1896 – Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [NS]
1897 – Mari Andriessen, Dutch sculptor (Dock Worker)
1899 – Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Frisian farmer/writer
1899 – Charles William (Charlie) Spencer Newcastle and England football player (d. 1953)
1903 – Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian
1903 – Cornell Woolrich, US, writer (El Angel Negro)
1905 – Emilio Médici, president Brazil (1969-74)
1907 – Jo Boer, Dutch author (Catharina & the Magnolias)
1908 – A D Hershey, US, biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969)
1909 – Jimmy Jewel, English actor (d. 1995)
1910 – Alex North, Chester Penn, composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata)
1910 – Amar Singh, cricketer (dashing Indian all-rounder of thirties)
1910 – Ramaswamy Venkataraman, president of India (1987-92)
1912 – Alfons “Alphons” Berckmans, Flemish/British actor (Family Stastok)
1912 – Jack Walsh, NSW/Leicestershire cricket china bowler (didn’t rep Aust)
1912 – John W Pritchard, [Ian Wallace], US, sci-fi author (Megalomania)
1912 – Pappy Boyington, American pilot (d. 1988)
1914 – Rudolf Hausner, Austrian artist (d. 1995)
1914 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d. 1993)
1915 – Allan Jackson, Hot Springs Ark, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand)
1915 – Fred Freer, cricketer (Australian pace bowler played one Test in 1946)
1916 – Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (d. 1994)
1920 – Michael Bates, Jhansi India, actor (Clockwork Orange, Patton)
1920 – Jeanne Manford, Flushing, Queens, gay rights activist, (d. 2013)
1920 – Nadir Afonso, Chaves, Portugal, geometric abstractionist painter, (d. 2013)
1921 – Deanna Durbin, Winnipeg Manitoba, actress/vocalist (100 Men & a Girl), (d. 2013)
1922 – Gerard Philipe, Cannes France, actor (Caligula, Le Diable au Corps)
1923 – Charles Keating, district attorney (Los Angeles California)
1924 – John Portman, SC, architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964)
1925 – Maurice Binder, photographer/film titler (James Bond), born in NYC, New York
1926 – Lee Doraey, rocker
1928 – Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut (X-20)
1928 – Dena Dietrich, American actress
1930 – Harvey Kuenn, baseball player (AL Rookie of the Year-1953)
1930 – Paul-Heinz Dittrich, composer
1930 – Roman Semyonovich Ledenyou, composer
1930 – Ronnie Corbett, Edinburgh Scotland, comedian (The 2 Ronnies)
1930 – Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist, (d. 2013)
1931 – Alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player
1931 – Wally George, American TV commentator (d. 2003)
1932 – Edgar Valcarcel, composer
1932 – Joanne Battiste, artist (heroines)
1932 – Roh Tae Woo, Taegu South Korea, President South Korea (1988-93)
1933 – Horst Buchholz, actor (Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe), born in Berlin, Germany
1934 – Victor French, actor (Highway to Heaven), born in Santa Barbara, California
1934 – Wink Martindale, Jackson Tn, TV host (Tic-Tac-Dough, Can You Top This)
1935 – Fred Rumsey, England, cricket lefty pace bowler (5 Tests 1964-65)
1935 – Robert Vesco, American financier and fugitive
1936 – Larry Davis, blues singer/guitarist
1937 – Max Baer Jr, actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies), born in Oakland, California
1938 – Andre Marrou, Libertarian Presidential candidate (1992)
1938 – Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Miep Gies-Anne Frank)
1938 – Lynn Blessing, vibes Player
1938 – Yvonne Minton, Australian soprano
1938 – Richard Meade, British equestrian (3 Olympic Golds 1968, 1970), born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire (d. 2015)
1940 – Freddy Cannon, [Picariello], Lynn Ma, rocker (Palisades Park)
1940 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)
1941 – Humberto Solas, director/writer (Lucia)
1941 – Raul Blanco, Australian soccer asst coach (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1942 – Bob Mosley, Paradise Valley CA, rock bassist (Moby Grape)
1942 – Gemma Jones, English actress
1943 – Patti Chandler, California, actress (Bikini Beach)
1944 – Chris Hillman, San Diego Caliafornia, singer (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn)
1944 – Dennis Wilson, Hawthorne CA, drummer/vocalist (Beach Boys)
1944 – François Migault, French racing driver
1944 – Anna McGarrigle, Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, born in Montreal, Quebec
1945 – Michael Gerzon, mathematician
1945 – Pam Higgins, LPGA golfer
1945 – Roberta Lynn Bondar, Ontario, astronaut (STS 42)
1947 – Ursula Krechel, writer
1947 – Terry Woods, Irish musician (The Pogues, Steeleye Span)
1948 – Lin Onus, artist
1948 – Southside Johnny Lyon, NJ, rocker (Asbury Jukes-Don’t Want Go Home)
1949 – Jeff Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry, Against All Odds), born in Los Angeles, California
1949 – Mary Bea Porter-King, Everett WA, LPGA golfer (1975 Golf Inns Classic)
1949 – Russ Karel, director
1949 – Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born Australian actress (Superman 3, Sat Night Live)
1950 – Jan Rietman, Dutch radio/TV host
1950 – Karel van de Graf, Dutch TV host
1951 – Gary Rossington, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington-Collins Band)
1951 – Patricia Wettig, Cincinnati Ohio, actress (Nancy Weston-30 Something)
1952 – Ronald Michael Sega, Cleve Ohio, PhD/Astronaut (STS 60, 76)
1953 – Rick Middleton, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 – Tony Todd, American actor and producer
1955 – Brian Prout, Troy NY, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1955 – Cassandra Wilson, jazz singer
1955 – Dave Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Bernard King, basketball player (NY Knicks, NJ Nets)
1956 – Blagoi Blagoyev, Bulgaria, 82.5 kg weightlifer (Olympics-silver-1976)
1956 – Herbert Groenemeyer, Germany, rocker (OE, Luxus, Chaos, Spruenge)
1957 – Lee Smith, Jamestown LA, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1957 – Raul Boesel, Brazil, Indy-car racer (CART)
1957 – Eric S. Raymond, American open source advocate
1958 – Bill Roy, Versailles Ill, skeet (Olympics-1996)
1959 – Susan W Krebs, American politician
1959 – Paul McGrath, Irish footballer
1960 – David Green, American baseball player
1960 – Glynis Nunn, Australian athlete
1961 – Frank Reich, Freeport, New York, American NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions)
1962 – Arnold Scholten, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1962 – John Gaasbeek, soccer player (FC Twente/NAC)
1962 – Stan Gelbaugh, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks)
1962 – Kevin Richardson, English footballest
1963 – Johanna Wright, Raleigh NC, WPVA volleyballer (Pismo Beach-4th)
1963 – Mike Snoei, soccer player (Sparta)
1963 – Sergey Bubka, Ukraine, pole vaulter (Olympics-gold-88, 92)
1964 – Bill Peterson, Smithfield NC, WLAF general mgr (Amsterdam Admirals)
1964 – Marisa Tomei, American actress (My Cousin Vinny), born in Brooklyn, New York
1964 – Sertab Erener, Turkish singer
1964 – Jonathan Goldstein, American actor
1965 – Rob Smits, pop drummer (Kong/Phlegm)
1965 – Álex de la Iglesia, Spanish film director
1966 – Fred Armisen, American actor and musician
1966 – Masta Ace, American rapper
1966 – Suzanne Malveaux, American television news reporter
1966 – Chris Shepherd, English film director
1967 – Klaus Wilmsmeyer, NFL punter (NO Saints)
1967 – Martha O’Kelley, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 – Mike Barrowman, Costa Mesa CA, kayak/200m breast stroke (Oly-g-92, 96)
1969 – Ferric Collons, NFL defensive end (New England Patriots)
1969 – Jacques Landry, Saskatoon Saskatchawan, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 – Marie-Josee Morneau, Longueuil Quebec, 56 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1969 – Mik Middleton, WLAF safety (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 – Terry Glenn, wide reciever (New England Patriots)
Rapper & Record Producer Jay-Z (1969)

1969 – Jay Z [Shawn Carter], American rapper and record producer (Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint), born in Brooklyn, New York City
1970 – Jeff Blake, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1970 – Kevin Sussman, American actor (Ugly Betty, The Big Bang Theory), born in New York City
1970 – Sylvester Terkay, American wrestler
1971 – Terrence Wisdom, NFL/WLAF guard/center (NY Jets, London Monarchs)
1971 – Shannon Briggs, American boxer
1972 – Damien Covington, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1972 – Howard Eisley, NBA guard (Utah Jazz)
1972 – Jassen Cullimore, Simcoe, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1972 – Jude St John, CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 – Kerry Anne Guse, Brisbane Queensland, tennis star (1996 final Hobart)
1972 – Ted Johnson, NFL inside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1972 – Nikki Tyler, American actress
1973 – Corliss Williamson, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
Supermodel & Actress Tyra Banks (1973)

1973 – Tyra Banks, Inglewood, California, model/actress (Higher Learning, Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1973 – Racci Shay, American Musician
1973 – Ferry Corsten, Dutch musician and DJ
1973 – Steven Menzies, Australian rugby league footballer
1973 – Kate Rusby, English folk singer
1974 – Anke Huber, Ludwigshafen Germany, tennis star (1996 finalist Australian)
1974 – Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player
1976 – John Lee, dance skater (& Julia Bikbova), born in Chicago, Illinois
1976 – Amie Comeaux, American singer (d. 1997)
1977 – Emily Ballard, Miss Washington Teen USA (1996)
1977 – Shahid Nazir, cricketer (Pakistan Test fast bowler v Zimbabwe 1996)
1977 – Big Pokey, American rapper
1978 – Michele Di Piedi, Italian footballer
Tennis Player Anke Huber(1974)

1978 – Jaclyn Victor, Malaysian singer
1979 – Jay DeMerit, American soccer player
1982 – Ho-Pin Tung, Dutch-Chinese racing driver
1983 – Jimmy Bartel, Australian rules footballer
1984 – Brooke Adams, American model
1984 – Lindsay Felton, American actress
1984 – Lauren London, American actress
1985 – Andrew Brackman, American baseball player
1985 – Carlos Gómez, Dominican baseball player
1986 – Martell Webster, American basketball player
1998 – Olawoyin Olufemi, Nigerian Musician

WEDDINGS

1878 – Novelist Bram Stoker (31) weds Florence Balcombe (20) in Dublin, Ireland
1973 – NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle (47) weds activist Carrie Cooke
1976 – Actress Elizabeth Taylor (44) marries for the 7th time to politician John Warner (49)
1979 – Liza Minnelli’s 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)
1999 – Philippe, Duke of Brabant and heir apparent to Belgium throne marries the honourable Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz
2005 – 2004 Olympic volleyball team member Kerri Walsh (27) weds fellow volleyball player Casey Jennings (30) at the La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs, California
Singer & Actress Liza Minnelli (1979)

2012 – “Teen Mom 2” star Jenelle Evans (21) weds Courtland Rogers (26) at a courthouse in Brunswick County, North Carolina

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

765 – Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)
811 – Charles The Younger, King the of Franks, son of the Emperor Charlemagne, dies at about 39
1075 – Archbishop Anno II of Cologne
1123 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
1137 – Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67
1182 – Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies
1214 – William I of Scotland
1270 – Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre
1334 – Pope John XXII (b. 1249)
1340 – Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)
1371 – Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38
1371 – Stefanus X Uros V, king of Serbia (1355-71), dies
1459 – Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
1514 – Richard Hunne, English “heretic”, commits suicide(?)
1576 – Rheticus, mathematician, dies
1585 – John Willock, Scottish reformer
1603 – Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71
1609 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet
1642 – Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lucon, dies at about 57
1649 – Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73
1649 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585)
1676 – Johann Georg Ebeling, composer, dies at 39
Philosopher Thomas Hobbes(1679)

1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
1680 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
1696 – Empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)
1732 – John Gay, English poet (Beggar’s Opera), dies at 47
1798 – Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61
1807 – Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston
1828 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
1836 – Daniel Read, composer, dies at 79
1884 – Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45
1890 – Willem III, Dutch king, buried
1893 – Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian Major, dies in battle against the Ndebeles during First Matabele War
1893 – John Tyndall, Irish physicist who demonstrated why the sky is blue and proved that the Earth’s atmosphere has a greenhouse effect, dies at 73
1902 – Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company – Wall Street Journal) (b. 1851)
1909 – Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60
1915 – Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60
1926 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861)
1932 – Gustav Meyrink, writer, dies at 64
1933 – Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65
1935 – Hylton Philipson, cricketer (England keeper in 5 Tests 1892-95), dies
1935 – Johan Halvorsen, composer, dies at 71
1938 – Dina Appeldoorn, Dutch pianist/composer, dies at 54
1943 – Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46
1944 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player (b. 1879)
1945 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
1948 – Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
1952 – Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67
1953 – Daniel Gregory Mason, composer, dies at 80
1954 – Nina Vasar, wife of Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitsj, dies
1956 – Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891)
1959 – Rosetta Duncan, (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58
1967 – Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72
1969 – Alceo Toni, composer, dies at 85
1969 – Fred Hampton, US Black-Panther leader, murdered
1971 – Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of SF Zen Center, dies
1973 – Michael O’Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67
1974 – Lee Kinsolving, actor (Explosive Generation), dies at 36
Political Theorist Hannah Arendt (1975)

1975 – Hannah Arendt, German/US political theorist and historian, dies at 69
1976 – Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar’s Opera), dies at 63
1976 – Tommy Bolin, rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose
1976 – W. F. McCoy, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
1977 – Leila Hyams, actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72
1978 – Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Neth/US phycists, dies at 76
1979 – Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62
1980 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz [Stella Walsh], Polish-born American sprinter (Olympic gold 1932), dies shot during an armed robbery, at 69
1983 – Estelle Omens, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays), dies at 55
1984 – John Rock, US co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94
1985 – Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, dies at 83
1986 – Reuben Nakian, US sculptor, dies at 89
1987 – Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90
1988 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
1990 – Edward Binns, US actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74
1993 – Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68
1993 – Frank V Zappa, US music/composer (Mothers of Invention), dies at 52
1993 – Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist, dies at 42
1993 – Margaret Landon, US author (Anna & the King of Siam), dies at 90
1994 – Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73
1994 – Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81), dies at 99
1994 – Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian playwright, dies at 66
1994 – Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78
1994 – Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63
1995 – Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16
1996 – Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83
1996 – Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86
1997 – David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72
1997 – Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72
1999 – Rose Bird, American judge (b. 1936)
2003 – Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b. 1916)
2004 – Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (b. 1943)
2005 – Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
2005 – Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b.1963)
2005 – Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (b. 1922)
2006 – James Kim, American television personality (b. 1971)
2007 – Norval Morrisseau, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
2007 – Chip Reese, American professional poker player (b. 1951)
2007 – Pimp C, American Rapper (b. 1973)
2009 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1973)
2011 – Sócrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954)
2011 – Hubert Sumlin, American blues guitarist (b. 1931)
2012 – Vasily Belov, Russian author, dies at 80
2012 – Jack Brooks, American politician, dies at 89
2012 – Miguel Calero, Colombia footballer, dies from cerebral thrombosis at 41
2012 – Besse Cooper, American supercentenarian and world

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1991 Hostage Terry Anderson freed in Lebanon

• American Revolution

• 1780 Washington’s cousin tricks Loyalists

• Automotive

• 1928 “Irish Godfather” killed by car bomb in St. Paul

• Civil War

• 1864 Engagement ends at Waynesboro

• Cold War

• 1945 Senate approves U.S. participation in United Nations

• Crime

• 1969 Police kill two members of the Black Panther Party
• 2009 Amanda Knox convicted of murder in Italy

• Disaster

• 1952 Smog kills thousands in England

• General Interest

• 1872 The mystery of the Mary Celeste
• 1918 President Wilson travels to Europe
• 1992 Bush orders U.S. troops to Somalia

• Hollywood

• 1981 Warren Beatty writes, directs, stars in Oscar-winning Reds

• Literary

• 1916 Somerset Maugham sails for Pago Pago

• Music

• 1956 The “Million Dollar Quartet” convenes at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee

• Old West

• 1867 Oliver Kelley organizes the Grange

• Presidential

• 1783 Washington bids farewell to his officers

• Sports

• 1997 NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for attacking coach

• Vietnam War

• 1966 Viet Cong attack Tan Son Nhut airport
• 1967 Riverine force surrounds Viet Cong battalion

• World War I

• 1917 Psychiatrist reports on the phenomenon of shell shock

• World War II

• 1942 Polish Christians come to the aid of Polish Jews